Not sure why anyone would downvote this, it's a huge factor. It's a well-known phenomenon. The emotional impact of the stuff you listened to in your early days

Not sure why anyone would downvote this, it's a huge factor. It's a well-known phenomenon. The emotional impact of the stuff you listened to in your early days of music fandom is often much greater than even your favorite music as a jaded music fan 20 years later. If that's combined with being a teenager (or younger), those associations are even stronger and more permanent, to the point where that music will always seem to have some intangible, emotionally resonant quality that seems to be missing from the stuff you get into later in life.